Help! I need an interesting, recent (last few months), and PEER REVIEWED science article.

[ZombieHorde]

I need to write a paper on this article for school. Any suggestions would be awesome.

[thunder rising]

1. You could go to the library ...or, The IEEE puts their journals on line ($)

[RoyGBiv]

2. Any article?

College?

Does your school give you access to JSTOR?

If not ... library.

[ZombieHorde]

6. College? - Yes JSTOR? - I don't think so.

[TXN in WA]

3. What topic?

I have access to Medline, and I'm a member of the ADA, so I might be able to help you out.

[ZombieHorde]

5. The topic is "science". That leaves a lot of breathing room, although it does need to be recent and

peer reviewed.

Something that would piss-off religious conservatives would be fun.

[TXN in WA]

7. Pretty broad...

If you have any interest in nutrition, I can peruse my ADA journals and let you know what has been published recently. Although it seems like you might have other ideas!!!

[Thor_MN]

15. Don't know if it was peer reviewed, but there was a study that correlated conservative tendancies

with a heightened startle reaction. I think is was a small sample size, but those that tended to react more stongly to disturbing stimulus tended towards more conservative views. Makes sense to me as they tend to try to motivate their base through fear. Someone pointed out to me that they they have such a narrow world view, that it is hard to get outside their comfort zone.

Read about it this week, so it must be recent.

[kristopher]

4. Go to google scholar and google a topic you are interested in.

http://scholar.google.com/schhp?hl=en&tab=ns

You'll have to keep trying different titles, as many of the journals are subscription. Earlier I looked this one up and it was open access. Are you interested in cancer related after effects of Chernobyl?
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Radiological+health+effects+20+years+after+the+Chernobyl&hl=en&lr=&btnG=Search

Click on the second link from the top and download the paper. it is relatively short.

[Catbird]

8. Electronic voting papers

Go to the ACCURATE web site and look at the list of publications: http://accurate-voting.org/

ACCURATE is an NSF (National Science Foundation)-funded project that examines accuracy in voting systems, including electronic systems.

Some of the papers in their list of publications are peer-reviewed; some are not. A doctoral dissertation is not. Communications of the ACM is; there is a 2007 CACM paper which might be recent enough. A lot of the proceedings are peer-reviewed, but people not in computing might not know that. If there is a paper you are interested in, look at the information about the publication (introduction, preface, editors' introduction, etc.) for information about the review process; if that is not sufficient, post another inquiry on DU.

A peer-reviewed paper on electronic voting will not only fulfill your requirement but will also put you in better position to understand some of the technical discussions on the election process that will surely come up in association with the upcoming election.

[TXN in WA]

9. What a great idea!

Re: "A peer-reviewed paper on electronic voting will not only fulfill your requirement but will also put you in better position to understand some of the technical discussions on the election process that will surely come up in association with the upcoming election."

[shireen]

10. if you write it, please post a link to it

i'd love to read it. :hi:

[ZombieHorde]

12. I will look into it tomorrow, and if I write it, I will try to post it.

The paper is one page maximum, so it will not be long.

[metapunditedgy]

11. space news

Have to put in a plug for space science. If you're interested, go to the web sites for any major science study, satellite, or telescope, and look at the press releases they put out. Those press releases usually cite the papers in question, and you can usually search a little more and find an article for "mass consumption" (e.g., at space.com) that explains the results in a little detail.

A few places with interesting press releases:
http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/press_release.html
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/
http://marsrover.nasa.gov/newsroom/pressreleases/
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press_releases/index.html (ok, this is not really space science)

You could also just browse around the headlines on space.com until you find a story you like; many of their stories are about recently-published papers.

It sounds like you already have your heart set on a different range of science, but I just had to put the plug in, well, for all the other people who are doing similar assignments who will read this thread.

[ZombieHorde]

13. Astrophysics turns me into a wide-eyed boy filled with wonder.

Even if I don't use your links, I will still read them. I may have to write several of these papers over the next month or three, so all of the story ideas may become helpful.

[metapunditedgy]

14. It has the same effect on astrophysicists. :-)

FWIW, you might also browse through recent issues of Nature magazine. It tends to publish the big stories, and the articles in it would count as peer-reviewed.

Anyway, I hope your project works out well!

[Occulus]

16. The Polywell!

There's a lab out in Santa Fe that's working on Dr. Robert Bussard's concept for a functional fusion reactor. I just woke up, so I won't even try to explain it here, but the Polywell wiki does a good job and appears to be accurate as far as I can tell.

The great part about this project is that you can contact the lab director himself; Dr. Nebel posts occasionally over at talk-polywell.org. Be aware, he's working under a Navy contract, so there are some things he can't yet talk about. That said, it's a very interesting project, they're doing some really great science on a shoestring budget, and if they're successful, it will- not might, but will- spell the end of the fossil fuel era.

It's also an opportunity to do a profile on the late Dr. Bussard, who himself was no slouch.

edit: ah, I see you need something peer-reviewed. That hasn't happened yet with this project; they expect to present to a panel for peer review by (I think) the end of October. Ah, well, I tried...